Cyberstalking and the Role of Mental Health Professionals
Cyberstalking involves using digital technology—including social media, digital tracking devices, digital messaging, email, spyware, surveillance cameras, or keyloggers—to track, follow, intimidate, or harass an individual, family, group, or community (Marcum & Higgins, 2021). Cyberstalking scenarios may range from someone harassing their former spouse after separation, to racist or homophobic bullying in a school or other […]
Poverty and Mental Health | Psychology Today
By R. Susan Daily, M.D., Eunice Y. Yuen M.D., Ph.D., and the Child Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Lily is a Caucasian 17-year-old girl coming to a family medicine clinic with fatigue and shortness of breath when walking. She has been depressed for more thanr two years, suffers anxiety, and has […]
How to Navigate Mental Health When You’re…
As a child of an immigrant, I’ve often found myself questioning my place in the world, navigating two identities, two cultures, and two religions—one from my mother, who was born in Mexico, and one from my father, who was born in the United States. Along the way, I frequently wondered: Am I too American? Do […]
How to Get to a Better Mental State When You’re Overthinking
Every anxious person knows the feeling of an event sending their ruminating mind into turbo drive. You feel deeply upset, and your thoughts keep looping back to what happened. You’re scattered, distracted, exhausted. The event feels like it has a grip on you. For this post, I’m going to assume the upsetting event involves being […]
The Hidden Gap in College Student Mental Health Care
by Rachel Conrad, MD, and J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD Imagine being a college student like Alex, who was experiencing increasing anxiety and depression as the academic year progressed. During the spring semester, Alex finally found a psychiatrist in their college town, and after months of waiting, they began treatment and started to feel better. […]
Break the Cycle of Family Mental Illness
It is hard to understand why some people develop serious Mental health conditions while others do not. Research conducted across many decades has revealed that there is a genetic link to mental illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Additionally, one in five children has a parent with a serious mental illness. This does […]
The Continuing Challenges of a Mental Health Disability
Source: asinclair/Pixabay My intention in writing these posts is to share the experiences that I went through with my son, starting with the first manifestation of his illness and our journey through numerous subsequent episodes. It’s also to provide commentary as a parent and psychiatrist on issues that these experiences bring up, such as how […]
Send the Kids Outdoors, Improve their Mental Health
The weather in Quebec can be pretty unpleasant during winter and early spring. And yet, it was during the months of February, March, and April that over 500 children aged 10-12 were given classes outdoors for two hours each week in a gutsy experiment to see whether time in nature doing art, meditation, or learning […]
The Mental Health Benefits of Giving Thanks
Next week is Thanksgiving. For many, the day will be filled with food (a lot), family and friends, and endless football games on TV. Some families or friend gatherings have a tradition of going around the table to ask each participant what they are grateful for. But did you know that practicing gratitude positively actually […]
The Hidden Mental Health Costs of Dieting
In a world where dieting is often seen as a quick path to better health or improved self-esteem due to weight loss, the Mental health consequences of dieting are not often acknowledged. Yet, the psychological toll of dieting can be severe, often outweighing any physical benefits. Let’s explore some of the ways that dieting can […]